Year: 2013
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Adding CGA to Bob’s Fury
As a small project I decided to add CGA graphics capability to my DOS platform game, Bob’s Fury. I have already implemented EGA, VGA (mode 13h) and VESA (640×400) modes. I had hoped to be able to run the game on older machines including 286 class machines as a minimum…
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Amstrad NC100 Laptop
Today I’m looking at one of the micro computers in my small collection, the Amstrad NC100 laptop. It was released back in 1992 arguably after Z80 machines were no longer relevant. However because it was small and inexpensive it sold quite well because PC laptops of the time were quite…
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Paku Paku for DOS
Having just got back from my trip away, I haven’t had much time this past weekend. I did backup some 5.25 inch floppies I brought back with me, but I was unable to get what I had planned for this week working. Step in Paku Paku which is actually a…
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Storage photo tour 2
This week I came back to my parents place to visit them. I keep some of my old computer parts and books here and I thought I would share some photos. First up we have some processors, a 20Mhz 386DX along with the much rarer Intel Overdrive and 486sx that…
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Some NetBSD Games
Having recently upgraded the disk space on the Sparcstation I decided I would go about installing a bunch more useful utilities and some games. I installed some image processing and capture software called XV so I could capture screenshots on the machine, this is what I’ve used to capture todays…
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Simcity for DOS
Simcity was developed by game designer Will Wright after having worked on a game called Raid on Bungeling Bay and finding it more fun to build the levels. The original Simcity was made for the Commodore 64 in 1985, but it wasn’t until 1989 that it was first released commercially on…
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Upgrading the SparcStation
This weekend I was fortunate in that I finally got another mbus module for my Sparcstation 20. I was however unfortunate in that my data drive in it has failed. Because I back up on a regular basis, nothing much was lost, just some work I had done over the…
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Some words on X windows
I’ve recently been reading about and watching a few videos about the replacement for X called Wayland. Now I know very little about Wayland itself, but I’ve been a user of X since about 1999 when I first went to university, so I can’t help it, I feel moved to…
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Robomaze II for DOS
Being stuck in bed the past few days left me some time to peruse some of my favourite DOS game websites. Recently I found Robomaze II on the RGB Classics website, I read that it was fondly remembered by many. You’d think with II in the title that it would be…
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Frame buffer and hard disk follow-up.
I investigated a couple of interesting things hardware wise yesterday that may be of interest. Firstly I tried out the Sun Wildcat Expert3d lite frame buffer card I got during this week. To my surprise it does indeed work with my systems, in fact it seems to be hardware compatible…
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